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An alliance of peak Islamic groups has called for Australia’s terrorism laws to be changed, to remove the concept of “religiously motivated terrorism” from the legislation. In a statement, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network said it was necessary to “avoid simplistic attributions that target specific communities”. The group’s spokeswoman Ramia Abdo Sultan said terrorism was driven by political ideology and not religion. “The presumption that terrorism is inherently tied to religion is not only inaccurate but harmful,” Ms Abdo Sultan told a press conference.

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Also just for the record

In early 2021, ASIO adopted new terminology to describe terrorism and violent extremism to ensure our terminology remains fit for purpose in an evolving threat environment.

The framework uses two umbrella terms for violent extremism—religiously motivated violent extremism, and ideologically motivated violent extremism.

Religiously motivated violent extremism denotes support for violence to oppose or achieve a specific social, political or legal system based on a religious interpretation.

Ideologically motivated violent extremism denotes support for violence to achieve political outcomes or in response to specific political or social grievances.

https://www.transparency.gov.au/publications/home-affairs/australian-security-intelligence-organisation/australian-security-intelligence-organisation-annual-report-2020-21/part-3%3A-australia’s-security-environment-and-outlook/new-terminology’s-security-environment-and-outlook/new-terminology

so guess the government have already recognised that terrorism isn’t inherently tied to religion.

Since it isn’t, we suggest that when the connection does occur, it is even more important to recognise when it does.